GaryGaulin
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| Quote (N.Wells @ Aug. 05 2016,20:13) | | Quote (GaryGaulin @ Aug. 05 2016,17:10) | | Quote (N.Wells @ Aug. 05 2016,16:51) |
I doubt that anyone is thinking what you are thinking. That appears to be a local flood, albeit a very big one, caused in one watershed by an earthquake and a related landslide. |
Evidence indicates that it is possible for the Noah's (man saves the day) flood story to have morphed from the Chinese (man saves the day) flood legend. The possibility would at least have to be ruled out using physical evidence, before assuming that there is no link at all between the two. |
All the evidence indicates that Noah's flood and Noah's ark never happened, so it's going to be difficult to come up with any evidence linking them to another flood.
(Whether one myth in China could have been birthed from or given rise to or merged with another myth in the Middle East is another matter.) |
Links to other floods and legends already exist. For example:
| Quote | In 1948, a British pilot serving in Iraq acquired a clay tablet with an intriguing, 3,700 year-old inscription. The ancient writing tells the story of how the god Enki warns a Sumerian king named Atra-Hasis of a future flood that will destroy mankind; Enki gives him instructions for building a boat to save his family and livestock. If that sounds like a familiar tale, it’s because this was one of several ancient flood traditions that, centuries later, would inspire the biblical story of Noah. But the tablet’s inscription describes a boat very different from the traditional image of the Ark—it’s said to be circular and made of reeds. Is this nothing more than a fanciful myth? Or could such a reed boat have carried Atra-Hasis’ family of more than one hundred and his many animals? Join NOVA as a team of historians and expert boat builders investigates this fascinating flood legend and sets out to rebuild a tantalizing, ancient forerunner of the Ark.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-noahs-ark.html |
The above possibility seems more likely of a source than the Chinese legend, but it's still worth following up on by someone who is trying to find out where the Noah's Ark story originally came from.
| Quote (N.Wells @ Aug. 05 2016,20:13) | | Earlier, were you talking about local hills & valleys in the Connecticut River Valley, or rift fill versus the ancient metamorphic rocks in which the rift formed? |
You are correct about the fill material having later tilted, but it's the uplift from underground magma that brought the older East Berlin formation to the surface. The tilt of the now collapsed plate(s) is greatest where the underground magma flow made a giant zit on the surface that was later eroded by glaciers. What is left is now Mt. Tom and its ranges. As a result Gaulin Tracksite is tilted to 12-13 degrees, while the tilt of the bedrock plates decrease as you travel east.
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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